LORD Alderley, James Hadfield-Hyde, is getting to be a dab hand at portrait painting.

But his latest subject may not be too amused at her image, wearing a pinny in television's famous Coronation Street.

The Queen, known as Aunty Betty to the armed forces, is framed outside the Rover's Return, looking more like Betty Turpin in her Coronation hot pot apron.

James, who took up portrait art following a stint as Lord Lust on an X- rated cable TV channel, didn't wait for the Royal command to pick up his paint and brushes.

He said: "It was my contribution to Her Majesty's celebratory year. I wanted to link her to Manchester because its also Manchester's year of celebration.

"I thought Betty is celebrating her coronation year so I put her in Coronation Street as a character wearing the pinny."

The masterpiece, unveiled at the Hayloft Gallery in Alderley Edge where James staged an exhibition of his art work, has a price tag of £22,000.

"It's a snip," he said. "It's certainly an image never captured before."

The picture was among ten other paintings and cartoons which were on display at the London Road gallery including a recent portrait of Christine Hamilton, the celebrity wife of former MP Neil Hamilton.

As a close friend of the Hamiltons the study of Christine was one of his first portrait paintings and she was delighted with it. Now the canvas in hanging at their Nether Alderley home.